Couples in Conflict: A Family Systems Approach to Marriage Counseling - Softcover

Ronald W. Richardson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080069628X ISBN 13: 9780800696283

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2010

Synopsis

Perhaps no single issue is of greater importance for families in Western culture than the one of marital conflict. When couples fail to successfully negotiate the emotional difficulties of their relationship, it can lead either to years of unhappiness within the marriage or to the breakdown of the marriage and to divorce. Unhappy couples negatively affect their families and even their communities. Couples in Conflict describes the nature of the emotional process leading to marital difficulties and how a minister or counselor can be a resource to help couples in conflict. The minister/counselor will be able to help them improve their lives personally, as well as their relationship and family life. By extension, couples will also develop skills that will improve their work life and their life in the community. The book provides practical and specific approaches to helping these couples and the issues that a minister must deal with in order to be useful to them.

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About the Author

Ronald W. Richardson is former Clinical Director of the North Shore Counseling Center, pastoral counselor, author of many books on family systems theory and is currently a retired pastor living in West Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080069628X
• ISBN 13: 9780800696283
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272